Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the second largest island in the world and one of the most
biologically and culturally diverse nations on the planet. One of the last true stone age people,
they are struggling with the delicate ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been detected with increasing frequency in water and fish tissue samples in the Rio Grande Basin above Cochiti Dam (RGBACD), which correlates with the use of improved analytical methods ...

The Town of Buena Vista (Town) has a limited water supply, although Cottonwood Creek runs through the center of Town and the Arkansas River borders the Town to the east. The Town’s water rights portfolio is entirely on ...

In 2004, a study by S.S. Papadopoulos determined that riparian evapotranspiration (ET)
along the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) accounts for 37% of the total water budget in this
stretch of the river. Transferring important ...

This study examined the distribution of uranium in drainages in Cove wash in northeastern Arizona. The dispersion of uranium from reclaimed mine sites on the Navajo Nation is not well studied in soils, sediment, and water. ...

In the recent case of Bounds v. State of New Mexico, the New Mexico Supreme
Court upheld the constitutionality of a statute that allows domestic wells to be
permitted with less oversight than other water rights. The ...

The Upper Rio Grande (URG) groundwater model is a compartmental model based on linear reservoir theory and mass conservation. It was developed using Powersim Studio® 2001 and 2003 software to demonstrate dynamic simulation ...

The Upper Rio Grande (URG) groundwater is a compartmental model based on linear reservoir theory and mass conservation. It was developed using Powersim Studio® 2001 and 2003 software to demonstrate dynamic simulation of ...

On June 29, 2000, Bernalillo County released a draft wastewater ordinance, Bernalillo County
Wastewater Ordinance, for public comment; in the fall of 2000, this ordinance was adopted.
The ordinance is intended to ...

In November 2000 a small workshop of 14 people met in Caracas, Venezuela, to discuss
the “value” of water. The meeting was sponsored by the International Water Resources
Network (IWRN), the Organization of American States ...

Lotic ecosystems of the southwestern U.S. can be severely affected by wildfires causing alterations in water chemistry, sedimentation from runoff events, and changes in macro invertebrate community structure. In these same ...

Lotic ecosystems of the southwestern U.S. can be severely affected by wildfires causing
alterations in water chemistry, sedimentation from runoff events, and changes in macroinvertebrate community structure. In these same ...

Livestock grazing can have a profound effect on water quality and vegetation of riparian ecosystems. In this study, the impacts of livestock grazing on surface water quality and vegetation was investigated along Bluewater ...

The State of New Mexico has sustained groundwater degradation from releases of cleaning solvents, considered hazardous waste, from dry cleaner facilities. Definitions of liability require that owners and operators of dry ...

There is a threat to the health of watersheds beyond natural occurrences. This
threat results from human recreational impacts. There are many ways in which watersheds can be managed and protected to better meet human needs ...

The Piedras Marcadas Watershed covers approximately 6 square miles west of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This watershed is semi-arid and has
arroyos, ephemeral streams that empty into a retaining dam. During ...

The purpose of this report is to document an II-month study of the erosional effects livestock
grazing had on Tajique Creek hillslopes in the Cibola National Forest, New Mexico. Two study
areas were selected with similar ...

Throughout the Southwest, non-native phreatophytes such as saltcedar have rapidly replaced native cottonwoods along river corridors. The USDA Forest Service (USFS)Fuels Reduction Study (FRS) is an effort to quantify the ...